Device for making filled dough products

Abstract

A device for making filled dough products comprises a conveyor device configured to convey dough pieces in a production direction, a holding belt disposed above the conveyor device and configured to engage a filling, which is disposed on one of the dough pieces, and a winding device configured to fold and/or wind one of the dough pieces. The winding device comprises a folding device adapted to fold a folding portion of the dough piece upwards, wherein the folding device comprises a hook, which is pivotably disposed above the conveyor device.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A device for making filled dough products, comprising:
 a conveyor device configured to convey dough pieces in a production direction;   at least one holding belt disposed above the conveyor device and configured to engage a filling disposed on one of the dough pieces; and   a winding device configured to fold and/or wind the one dough piece and comprising a folding device, which is adapted to fold a folding portion of the one dough piece upwards, wherein the folding device comprises a hook pivotably disposed above the conveyor device.   
     
     
         2 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the hook has an engagement portion configured to engage the one dough piece as the one dough piece is conveyed on the conveyor device. 
     
     
         3 . The device according to  claim 2 , wherein the hook is pivotable from a starting position towards a displaced position by the engagement of the engagement portion with the one dough piece and the conveying of the one dough piece by the conveyor device. 
     
     
         4 . The device according to  claim 3 , wherein the engagement portion is disposed downstream of a downstream end portion of a holding belt of the at least one holding belt in the displaced position of the hook. 
     
     
         5 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein a pivoting axis, about which the hook is pivotable, is oriented transverse to the production direction. 
     
     
         6 . The device according to  claim 5 , wherein the pivoting axis is oriented orthogonal to the production direction. 
     
     
         7 . The device according to  claim 5 , wherein the pivoting axis is disposed upstream of a downstream end portion of a holding belt of the at least one holding belt. 
     
     
         8 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the folding device comprises an additional hook. 
     
     
         9 . The device according to  claim 8 , wherein a holding belt of the at least one holding belt is disposed between the two hooks. 
     
     
         10 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the winding device comprises a winding mat, which is disposed above the conveyor device, and which is configured to engage the one dough piece from above. 
     
     
         11 . The device according to  claim 10 , wherein the winding mat is configured to rest on the one dough piece. 
     
     
         12 . The device according to  claim 1  further comprising a suction device configured to generate an underpressure below the conveyor device, wherein the conveyor device has openings to allow the dough pieces to be sucked to the conveyor device by the underpressure. 
     
     
         13 . The device according to  claim 12 , wherein the suction device is configured to generate the underpressure along a suction track, which extends along the production direction, wherein an end of the suction track is disposed upstream of a location at which the winding device is initially engageable with the one dough piece. 
     
     
         14 . The device according to  claim 13 , wherein the end of the suction track is disposed at a distance from the location at which the winding device is initially engageable with the one dough piece.